Matadi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, January 17, 2025
Photo: exarchate-africa.ru
More than a dozen people received Holy Baptism last week at a new parish of the Russian Orthodox Church’s African Exarchate in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
On January 9, the chairman of the Exarchate’s Missionary Department Fr. George Maximov (who is 
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“>considered defrocked by the Patriarchate of Constantinople for his activity on its canonical territory) and local Exarchate cleric Hieromonk Kleonik (Madudu) celebrated the first Divine Liturgy for the community of St. Cyril, the Equal-to-the-Apostles, in Matadi, the Exarchate reports.
The priests also baptized and chrismated 19 new Orthodox Christians.
On January 11, the clerics and a delegation from the Foundation for the Support of Christian Culture and Heritage visited the Oran la Force Orthodox Orphanage, which is cared for by the Archangel Raphael Church in Kinshasa.
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